{"id":61830,"date":"2021-01-07T19:13:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T14:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1cfd8fa4-397f-49c0-9873-23d85388a74d"},"modified":"2021-01-07T19:13:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T14:13:03","slug":"samsungs-new-galaxy-chromebook-2-is-a-more-affordable-and-boasts-a-qled-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/samsungs-new-galaxy-chromebook-2-is-a-more-affordable-and-boasts-a-qled-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung&#8217;s new Galaxy Chromebook 2 is a more affordable and boasts a QLED display"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"image image-original shortcode-image\"><span class=\"img aspect-set \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zdnet2.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2021\/01\/06\/d1cd5707-ffe2-4033-917c-7dd63e7580cf\/resize\/1200xauto\/cacf298f79d90d17b2589edf4ab0adfc\/galaxy-chromebook-2-dynamic-red.jpg\" class alt=\"galaxy-chromebook-2-dynamic-red.jpg\" height=\"auto\" width=\"1200\"><\/span><figcaption><span class=\"caption\"><\/span><span class=\"credit\"> Image: Samsung <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Samsung on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/galaxy-qled-chromebook-2\/?utm_source=pr_media&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">took the lid off<\/a> of a new Galaxy Chromebook 2, a follow up to the first Galaxy Chromebook. Only, instead of taking the high-road by offering best-in-class components and a price price tag that flirts with four figures, the Chromebook 2 takes a more modest approach.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The two-in-one laptop runs Google&#8217;s Chrome OS operating system, with a healthy dose of Samsung&#8217;s own Galaxy apps and services. It features a 13.3-inch QLED FHD display, up to 8GB of memory, and up to 128GB of storage, with Wi-Fi 6, a 720P webcam, and support for any USI-compliant stylus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The base model will come with an Intel Celeron 5205U processor, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage for $549.99. The other build includes an Intel Core i3-10110U processor, 8GB of memory, and 128GB of storage for $699.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image image-original shortcode-image\"><span class=\"img aspect-set \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/samsungs-new-galaxy-chromebook-2-is-a-more-affordable-and-boasts-a-qled-display\/\" class=\"lazy\" alt=\"galaxy-chromebook-2-l-perspective2-gray.jpg\" height=\"auto\" width=\"1200\" data-original=\"https:\/\/zdnet3.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2021\/01\/06\/535e87a3-71d0-4120-b931-b03531314fe8\/resize\/1200xauto\/141f3a76b7eefe5eeeeffd05f7712385\/galaxy-chromebook-2-l-perspective2-gray.jpg\"><\/span><span class=\"img aspect-set \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zdnet3.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2021\/01\/06\/535e87a3-71d0-4120-b931-b03531314fe8\/resize\/1200xauto\/141f3a76b7eefe5eeeeffd05f7712385\/galaxy-chromebook-2-l-perspective2-gray.jpg\" class alt=\"galaxy-chromebook-2-l-perspective2-gray.jpg\" height=\"auto\" width=\"1200\"><\/span><figcaption><span class=\"caption\"><\/span><span class=\"credit\"> Image: Samsung <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As previously mentioned, Samsung&#8217;s own apps will be preinstalled on the Chromebook 2. Those apps will allow users of the company&#8217;s own Galaxy phones to do things like send and receive text messages, as well as place calls directly from the Chromebook 2.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even though it&#8217;s a 2-in-1, meaning it can be used as a tablet in addition to a traditional laptop configuration, the Chromebook 2 does not come with a stylus of any kind. That&#8217;s right, Note fans: There&#8217;s no S Pen in the box.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Samsung opted to make the Chromebook 2 compatible with all Universal Stylus Initiative (USI) certified pens that you&#8217;ll have to separately purchase. You can then use that pen to draw or write on the Chromebook 2&#8217;s screen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Samsung touts a new Smart AMP feature on the Chromebook 2, bringing louder and clearer audio to the laptop, which should help both for watching movies or TV shows and video calls.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<section class=\"sharethrough-top\" data-component=\"medusaContentRecommendation\" data-medusa-content-recommendation-options=\"{&quot;promo&quot;:&quot;promo_zd_recommendation_sharethrough_top_in_article_desktop&quot;,&quot;spot&quot;:&quot;dfp-in-article&quot;}\"> <\/section>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be available in a bright, as Samsung calls it, &#8220;Dynamic Red&#8221; color scheme and a Dynamic Gray.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t a firm ship date for the Chromebook 2, with Samsung only stating that the Chrome OS device will be available sometime in the first quarter of this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relatedContent alignNone\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\"> <span class=\"int\">Samsung Unpacked<\/span> <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/samsungs-new-galaxy-chromebook-2-is-a-more-affordable-and-boasts-a-qled-display\/#ftag=RSSbaffb68\">By ZDNet Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Samsung Samsung on Thursday took the lid off of a new Galaxy Chromebook 2, a follow up to the first Galaxy Chromebook. Only, instead of taking the high-road by offering best-in-class components and a price price tag that flirts with four figures, the Chromebook 2 takes a more modest approach.&nbsp; The two-in-one laptop runs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14083],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-technology-industry-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}